History Repeats Itself: The Life Course of Women Released From Prison
Author: Maureen Norton-Hawk.; Susan Sered.; Mary Ellen Mastrorilli.
Source: Volume 17, Number 03, September/October 2013 , pp.35-36(2)
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Abstract:
In order to better understand the life course of post-incarcerated females, the authors conducted a study of women released in 1995 from the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) Framingham. This analysis of contemporary Boston-based post-release women builds on Sheldon and Eleanor Glueckâs ground-breaking study, Five Hundred Delinquent Women (1934), which traced the lives of former MCI Framingham female inmates whose paroles expired between 1921 and 1925.Keywords: parallel demographics; marginalized populations; punitive society; mortality; recidivism
Affiliations:
1: Suffolk University; 2: Suffolk University; 3: Boston University Metropolitan College.